$2,375
INITIATIVE QUARTER-REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH Initiative, Swiss, No. 59164. Made circa 1905. Fine, 18K gold, keyless, quarter-repeating pocket watch with co-axial single button chronograph. Accompanied by a fitted box. Four-body, "bassine", polished, engine-turned case back centered bi a shield, hinged gold cuvette engraved with prize medals. White enamel with printed radial Roman numerals, outer minute and 1/5th seconds track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. 45 mm.(20''') frosted gilt, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by depressing push button in the band at 3. Notes Dial and cuvette signed. DIAM. 54 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-04-09
